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Apr 29, 2021, 7 tweets

#BREAKING At least 20 critically injured in accident at Israel pilgrimage site: rescue services

#UPDATE Dozens of people have been injured, 20 of them critically, after a grandstand collapsed at a Jewish pilgrimage site in Meron, Israeli rescue services say.

Tens of thousands of Jews were participating in an annual pilgrimage for the feast of Lag BaOmer

#BREAKING 'Dozens of dead' in Israel pilgrimage accident: rescue services

#UPDATE A stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site has left dozens of people dead in Israel.

Rescue workers had initially said that chaos erupted when a grandstand collapsed but later revised that to say a stampede caused the casualties

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#BREAKING At least 44 killed in Israel pilgrimage stampede: rescue services, hospital

#UPDATE A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site has left dozens dead in northern Israel.

Rescue workers faced chaotic crowds while trying to evacuate the injured

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VIDEO: Pilgrimage stampede among 'Israel's worst disasters', says medic.

An emergency medical worker from Israeli voluntary organisation United Hatzalah reacts after a massive stampede at a Jewish pilgrimage killed dozens of people in the north of the country

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